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Jurassic era fossil of squid-like creature attacking prey

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    Jurassic era fossil of squid-like creature attacking prey

    Due to the nature of their bodies finding that of one which fossilized is pretty rare. Finding one that had apparently just killed it's prey is obviously much rarer.

    Source: 200 million-year-old fossil shows oldest 'squid attack' on record



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    Damaged head and body of the fish, with the arms of the squid-like creature clamped around it.
    Clarkeiteuthis montefiorei. The 16-inch-long (40 centimeters) squid relative was chowing down on an 8-inch-long (20 cm) herring-like fish that had been identified as Dorsetichthys becheiSource

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    Since it has only been accepted I haven't found the paper or even abstract yet so I'll make do with the Smithsonian's report on it:

    Source: 200-Million-Year-Old Fossil Captures Squid Viciously Entangled With Its Prey


    The specimen may be the earliest known example of a squid-like creature on the attackClarkeiteuthis montefiorei has its prey wrapped up in tentacles studded with hooks, according to a statement from the University of Plymouth. The skull of the herring-like fish Dorsetichthys becheiProceedings of the Geologists' AssociationClarkeiteuthis, an extinct type of internal-shelled cephalopod called a belemnoid, bit off more than it could chew. In this scenario, the fish was so large that it became stuck in the jaws of the ClarkeiteuthisGizmodoNewsweekSource

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    Nice picture of real life and eath fossils.

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      Gnarly.
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        It looks like it tried to bite off more than he could chew.

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